At about15 months, we decided to let her upgrade to "Roomtime" for a few reasons. She was getting more mobile and walking around a lot more. She was growing bigger and taller thus making the playpen slightly more uncomfortable for her. She also needed more toys to keep her occupied within the 30mins and so we needed to give her more space. So her bedroom also became her playroom.
For a start, we used the playpen to block the room to create the boundaries. With that playpen there, she's not able to move out of the room at all. Today, I just felt prompted to move on further, to remove the playpen as a barrier and see if she could be trained to stay in the room, with doors opened. I was actually expecting quite a bit of wrestling with her... cos she's required to exercised more self-control with the removal of the barrier. She could just step out anytime if she wanted to actually.
She tried initially to test whether she could just let her little feet step out of the room...I had to repeat the same instruction about three to four times to keep her staying within the boundaries of the room. There was some struggle there on her part. After about 5 mins into her play time, she stood right at the door, looked at me sitting in the living room and cried. But of course, I had to insist that Roomtime was not over and that she had to stay in there until I said she could come out. She walked back in. To my surprise, for the rest of the time, she just stayed inside with the doors wide opened.
I thought that was quite amazing.. cos that was really beyond my expectations. Of course, I know there will be some challenging days definitely, but I am very encouraged to see my little girl growing in this manner. :)
I decided to reward her after the half an hour with a banana and her favourite Vitamin C tablet! hehe! :p
Coming up next would be potty training at some point... and then moving her from crib to bed.. :)
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